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To: stormer

Surprising. Aren’t the Icelanders mostly Swedish? From what I heard, they have two main occupations, getting drunk and getting in and out of bed.

Neither activity alone.

Of course we are talking about Iceland, where if people see a tree or something, it’s like seeing the pope!


30 posted on 08/22/2007 8:17:24 AM PDT by djf (America welcomes immigrants! Sadly, America welcomes crimmigrants even more...)
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To: djf
“Aren’t the Icelanders mostly Swedish?”

I don’t think I’d say that in Iceland, unless you want Einar and Thorsson to to give you a lesson in human geography. I too have heard that Icelanders have a prodigious appetite for alcohol - kind of makes me pine for the fjords.

49 posted on 08/22/2007 8:34:29 AM PDT by stormer
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I think the people who colonized Iceland were mainly Norse (Norwegian) rather than Swedes, but some of them were Norse from the Western Isles of Scotland. I was told once that the Icelanders actually have a lot of Celtic ancestry (being descended from children the Norse men had by Hebridean women) but I don’t know if that is borne out by DNA studies.


73 posted on 08/22/2007 9:57:59 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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